March 2015 - March Gladness

Welcome to the 127th Issue of America’s sake-centric Newsletter. In this revealing edition get ready to take a sake acid trip, then check out Ten sakes that make serious acidity plays, learn about a sake that all sake drinkers should taste at some point in their sake lives, read about a fun Sake Challenge pitting two brews versus British fare, jump at the news of True Sake’s new sake bar, honor the Tohoku earthquake’s 4th anniversary with a Beau-Zone Layer sake, and discover how sake can become more popular when you Ask Beau.

When we talk about adding distilled alcohol to premium sake like Ginjo and Daiginjo sakes, how much can be added to a batch of sake? Legally brewers must use less than 10% of the weight of the milled or polished rice – for 1 ton of white rice they may add 116.4 liters of distilled alcohol.